CALL FOR PAPERS

Mardi 16 juin 2009

Youth Policy and Youth Politics

in the UK, the USA and France

International conference organised by CREW/CREC - EA 4399

CREW – Centre for Research on the English-Speaking World

CREC – Centre de recherches en civilisation britannique

Institut du Monde Anglophone,

Grand Amphithéâtre

Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle,

5, rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France

Friday 11 & Saturday 12 June 2010

Call for papers

The years between late childhood and early adulthood are particularly challenging in contemporary societies. The purpose of this international conference is to compare and contrast British, American and French youth, both as the subjects of youth policy and as actors in youth politics.

Young people are the subject of youth-centred policies as regards various social phenomena which involve the young in particular (e.g. anti-social and risky behaviour), as well as more fundamental youth matters, such as education and employment along with the school-to-work transition. Youth policy also involves a range of other issues, such as youth homelessness, youth poverty, youth protection, youth work, youth justice, health care provision, as well as Youth Service leisure provision and other activities aimed at contributing to the personal, social and economic well-being of young people.

Young people are also political actors. Membership of political parties and voter turnout among young people have both been declining over the past decade in the UK and France, with serious implications for the future of citizenship and democracy. Conversely, in the USA, the youth vote has been increasing. At the same time, young British, American and French people are more and more involved in bottom-up, issue-based political activism (e.g. the environment, world poverty). This, too, has important implications for the political landscape of the future.

This conference aims to bring together social scientists from sociology, political science, geography, economics and Anglophone Studies as well as practitioners working with young people in the UK, the USA and France to share knowledge and experience.

Papers will discuss a specific issue of youth policy or youth politics in the UK, the USA or France today, or will make a comparison between countries on a particular point. Each presentation (in English or French) will last 20-25 minutes to be followed by questions/discussion.

Please submit your abstract of no more than 500 words, for a paper on any of the above topics, no later than Sunday 4 October 2009, to:

sarah.pickard@univ-paris3.fr & corinne@nativel.org

Notification of acceptance will follow shortly afterwards.

We look forward to hearing from you.

For enquiries and further information please contact:

Dr Sarah Pickard, lecturer in contemporary British Studies,

Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, 5, rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France

http://www.univ-paris3.fr/10436/0/fiche___annuaireksup/&RH=ACCUEIL

sarah.pickard@univ-paris3.fr